Member of €175m-winning Naul syndicate plans to buy new bicycle

The winners of the €175m EuroMillions jackpot have collected their prize.

The large family syndicate from the Naul in North Dublin scooped the jackpot on February 19.

They decided to keep their prize collection low key, and were presented with their winning cheque by National Lottery CEO, Dermot Griffin, yesterday.

Syndicate spokesperson, Gerry Brown, said the family are now looking forward to getting on with their lives after what has been an exciting week.

"This is life-changing for all of the family and we are absolutely thrilled," he said.

"We have spent the last week getting independent legal and financial advice, and our win is slowly sinking in.

We are a very close family and this is a dream come true for us. We want this win to change our lives in a positive way.

Appealing for privacy, the family said they'd do one radio interview and that was with RTÉ Radio 1.

The family's ticket was sold at Reilly’s Daybreak in Naul and the syndicate realised their good fortune when the ticket was checked on the night of the draw.

Mr Brown said his wife was watching the news on the night and she recognised three of their numbers. He spoke of the site being down so it took ten minutes before she could get back online to check the rest of the numbers.

He and his wife kept the ticket in their home and with the panic and excitement she worried that the house would burn down over night, but for safe keeping she put it in an Argos catalogue overnight.

The family syndicate has been up and running a couple of years. They do it once a week and the winning ticket was a €14 quick pick.